Racism and social marginalisation research study
Discrimination and social marginalisation are major stumbling blocks to integration and community cohesion. In particular, discrimination and racial abuse can lead to social marginalisation and alienation that, in turn, might be one set of factors leading some individuals to develop attitudes, and even activities, supporting criminal movements and their use of violence.
With funding from the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), Susan McVie and Susan Wiltshire are carrying out a collaborative project with researchers from England, Spain and France to explore the relationship between young people’s experiences of discrimination and social marginalisation, including racism, and the development of attitudes, and potential activities, in support of violent criminal acts.
The self-report questionnaire survey method is being used as the research’s principle data collection tool, and will be applied to young respondents primarily in educational establishments. The research will include both minority and majority population respondents, in each Member State, in order to situate the findings in the context of experiences and attitudes that impact on young people regardless of their background.
The research findings are intended to inform policy makers about the experiences and attitudes of the survey’s young respondents with respect to discrimination, racism, alienation, identity, beliefs, and support for criminal movements and the use of violence. The findings can inform policy makers about where intervention and resources are most needed to counteract the negative influences of social marginalisation and racism on crime and violence. The report is completed and due to be published by the Fundamental Rights Agency in Summer 2010
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- Alcohol Misuse and Domestic Abuse
- All Change
- An investigation into the environmental impact of off-license premises on residential neighbourhoods
- Analysing the Scottish Crime Survey Over Time
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- AQMeN
- Assessing Dynamic Risk in Intimate Partner Offenders
- Assessing Risk in Intimate Partner Offenders
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- Comparing Crime Surveys Across the UK
- Compliance with Community Penalties
- Consensus / Consenso
- Crime and Justice Research Training and Development
- Cultural Change in Community Justice
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- Diversion from Prosecution to Social Work
- Drinking and Drug Use in the Community: A Survey of Young Offenders, 2007
- Economics of Crime
- Ethnography of Penal Policy
- Ethnography Reading Group
- European Postgraduate and Early Stage Researchers Working Group
- European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Home Detention Curfew (HDC) and the Prison's Open Estate
- Evaluation of the Grampian Return Home Welfare Interview (RHWI) pilot
- Evaluation of the National Parenting Development Project Project (NPDP, Aberlour Child Care Trust).
- Evaluation of the Women in Focus Programme
- Evaluation of Up-to-us Young Women’s Project
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- Gender Equality Duty and Scottish Criminal Justice - EOC Guidance
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- Learning about alcohol: Influences of family context
- Metaphors in Policy
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- Pathways into organise crime
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- Prison Privatisation
- Probation Histories
- Public procurement processes and resillience against infiltration of organized crime
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- SCJS User Guide
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- The Governance of Security and the Analysis of Risk for Sporting Mega-events: Security Planning for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
- The International Market in Illicit Antiquities
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